Abstract: This paper has surveyed the height, weight, head diameters, neck diameters, circumference, shoulder diameters and hip diameters of 690 full-term newborns of Arab Moors and black people in Mauritania in the middle of 1980s. These physiologic constants have been initially established in this article. The data show that these physiologic constants of Arab Moors are higher than those of black people and the physiologic constants of male babies are higher than those of female babies. It is obvious that these physiologic constants are lower than those of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan and China.

Key words: Mauritania; Full-term newborns; Physiologic constant; Arab Moors; Black people